first off, lauras birthday was last week, but she couldn't hang so we met up this Friday. I went to her house after school and we ate there with her mom. I had made a cake (confetti cake I might add) and it was delicious. since laura is my best friend here, I was willing to spend 10 euros on a cake and another 10 on a present. I got her the book 'clockwork angel' in English, and apparently she wanted it, so I guess I am just a great gift giver without even knowing. but anyway, the cake was amazing and I've missed my good 'ol American cakes. so sugary. and the family loved it as well.
speaking of laura, for these past couple weeks I've been going to her house in the mornings and basically dragging her out of her house. the reason for this is because she is forever late. and me, being a very punctual person, hate it. before, I would wait outside her apartment complex, but most of the time I would end up leaving because she was late, and I didn't want to be. but now, I leave 20 minutes earlier, sneak into the complex (not really; I just say good morning to the guard), go to her building, make her buzz open the door, go up the elevator and ring the doorbell, wherein I enter, talk to her father and brother while she gets ready, and continue to basically leave as shes hurrying to finish up and I meet her in the elevator. also add in 'laura hurry up' at least 20 times every day. and we STILL END UP WALKING REALLY REALLY FAST to school. but hey, we're never late, and I love her company, so its all good. as of now, we're planning a Europe trip for the end of june and I am simply ecstatic.
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heres the beautiful birthday girl
so then on Saturday morning I went to orchestra for the first time. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i love it. i missed it. I neeeeeed it. but really, it was great. its right in pozuelo, and there happens to be a violinist that lives close so she can give me a ride, so now I dont have to pay to go. so in the beginning, around 10, its just cellos and basses until 1130, then we go buy some breakfast, than at 12 its the whole orchestra (no winds so far, but we'll see). its an orchestra of all ages, so there are older people and i think the youngest is probably 13. but either way, its about my level, so thats great. and they have a bass i can use, but I have to bring my own bow... oddly enough. so on Saturday one of the bassists let me play her bass, so it was seriously so nice. I'v missed it. and we're even playing a piece that i've played before in orchestra (shoutout to mr. patterson, I miss your bad puns). so that rocked.
then i went home for lunch with my moms parents, and then met my friend grace in madrid to see the cuatro torrrrrrrres (it would be better if i could roll my r's). these 4 huge buildings are basically offices, with one hotel, but it was cool to see. I knew in one of them you could go up and take a picture from the top, but I didn't know which, so we went to one and it was closed, and then the next, and then finally the hotel was open. at the top theres a restaurant with a great view, so we went up. there wasn't anyone around, so we kind of just walked into a room and took pictures, then on the way out a waitress walked up and saw we had cameras and I would assume she figured we were foreigners, so she didn't say anything and we just awkwardly walked out. but hey, I got some cool pics.
here are the cuatro torres from far away
and here is from the restaurant window
and then we went down, and walked to torres KIO. theres a bank and one other building i dont know... but they were cool.
so in the front you see the fountain, and then in the back the buildings and that strange structure that we didn't know what it was.
and here on the opposite side of the fountain (im facing the buildings)
so about then it started sprinking, but I like the rain, so we're like 'whatever' and kept walking. we didnt really know where we were going, just walking (which I love doing). we happened to pass by a few cool places.
this is grace. shes pretty cool. I enjoyed her company
this is Nuevo ministerios. not really sure what it is. probably more offices.
and thiiiiis is the Madrid soccer stadium. you have to pay to get a tour and go in, or go to a game, but the outside was cool, too.
then we went to a museum of natural science, which we liked. it was 3 euros to get in, and it had some cool stuff, including a rock garden and meditarranean garden. howeeeeeeever, that was when it really started pouring, so we didn't go in those. instead, we ran to the train station and headed home.
before we went in. this was outside the front of the museum.
and theeeeeeeeeen, something really cool happened. I was in the train station and i heard English while i was waiting. and this guy comes up to me and asks in Spanish if this train went to aravaca. and i answered yes. so then we got on, and he was with a girl (she was the one I heard speaking English) and I sat next to her and said 'hey, you speak english, where are you from?' and shes like 'hi, im from chicago' and so on and so forth. we talked about me being an exchange student and why she was there (shes a talent advisor, but her husband is Spanish and from sevilla). and then we got to aravaca AND IT TURNS OUT SHE LIVES TWO STREETS DOWN. but she was only here til today. buuut her niece lives here, so I gave her my contact information to give to her niece, and that was that. but its always great meeting new friends.
I never got their names, oddly, but here they are
so that was saturday. then on sunday (today) i went and met up with my friend audrey and one of her friends to go to a balon mano game (handball, basically soccer with your hands). it was pretty sweet, and there were many attractive guys, which we claimed for ourselves, so that was fun as well. it was actually a really intense game. and it ended up in a tie. but I really enjoyed it.
this is half of the court. it was just a high school game, but it was still pretty cool.
and that concludes my extremely interesting and fun weekend. so yeah, it was awesome.
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